Searching for a Place in TΗe World

By Serenissimo Celestino

"How do you explain to someone who was born in chains that time belongs to them?"
This book came to life while traveling. Its pages were written on buses, planes, ships, in airports, on those ramshackle benches that give you a few minutes of recovery, in the crowded waiting rooms, in that apparently infinite limbo that exists between the arrival of the next train and your destination, in the stations of lost provinces of Thailand, Mexico, the United States, England and Peru. Mainly, it was written in a place very close and yet so far away that it is hidden within ourselves.
The author-protagonist is a gay guy, who in a crucial moment of his life, decides to deal with his demons and to free himself from the burden of repression and to really start living life. This story highlights a long path of personal growth that embraces different topics; it includes travelling, connection with people and places, cultural exchange, constant introspection, personal and family traumas, encounter with disease and death, but also diversity, discovery, mental and sexual freedom, suffering, love and the continuous search for happiness. (The text contains explicit gay sex scenes and enhances the encounters with many different forms of diversity; therefore, homophobes and racists are warned).
"When you are lucky enough like I have been, you feel compelled to share what you have learned to make it known to others, to instill hope for those who do not have it, to build that tolerant and welcoming, to bequeath to the children or to those who will come after us, to feed the sacred fire that dwells in everyone's conscience, the same passion that pushes free men to believe in dreams... "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DR8J71Z2
• ISBN13: 9798304518222
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"